Spring-driven mantel clock with a case in the form of an obelisk and pedestal veneered over slate and bronze with lapis lazuli and supported on a griotte marble base. The gilt-bronze mounts include a figure of Aurora at the top of the obelisk, lions’ heads at its base and a seated Ceres and an infant on either side of the dial. The oval gouache medallion representing Cupid and the Three Graces was probably painted by a Monsieur Barbarey. His name is inscribed on the back although the full date of 1854 can only be read clearly on the reverse of the medallion on the matching barometer (F95). Both the clock and barometer seem to have been altered, perhaps in the mid nineteenth century when Barbarey executed the medallions.